Almost the same thing happens in the anime series Nerima Daikon Brothers, except that it’s guys dressed up in lion suits, they’re the bad guys, and the airdrop to beat them up is a batch of dancing girls who encourage you to borrow money recklessly.

I loved the first Fletcher Hanks book (shame on anyone who wasn’t already aware of the previous boo :P) and I’m quite excited to get this book. It’s so wild to think that all of this craziness came out of the mind of one guy. The Hanks “Stardust” story in Fantagraphics recent “Supermen!” book had a similar “animals attacking from the sky”, featuring gigantic vultures from Venus who could fly through space and reach Earth within a few minutes. No spacesuits or anything. Completely ridiculous.

Wow! Thanks for the kind words about my Fletcher Hanks books. Agreed: those floating tigers had a rough and surreal fate.

For those of you unfamiliar with Hanks more down-to-Earth if not equally strange work, slide on over to the BONUS page of my website for a peek at a full length story featuring Big Red McLane. Evidently, once upon a time, someone thought that a series about an ass-kicking lumberjack was a good idea.